Right to vote

Once again the federal judiciary, whose lifetime appointments insulate it from the occasional bigotry of the electing majority, stands up for the rights of minorities. It has rejected patently discriminatory barriers to voting passed under the sham of combating voter fraud.

It is shameful that millions of Americans would have been deprived of the most basic constitutional right — a vote — had federal judges in North Carolina, Wisconsin and Texas not struck down patently racist voter ID laws targeting minority voters whom legislators perceived as a threat to their incumbency.

This story was originally published August 2, 2016 at 10:20 PM with the headline "Right to vote."